כ״ה בכסלו ה׳תשס״ה (Wednesday 8 December 2004)

Jerusalem, crazy city

כ״ה בכסלו ה׳תשס״ה (Wednesday 8 December 2004)

Lest anyone doubt, even for just a moment, that life in Jerusalem is not a constant struggle between the real and the insane, here is a post from Janglo encouraging Jerusalemites to purchase styrofoam boxes and to leave those boxes outside in their neighborhoods, so that street cats – street cats, for crying out loud! [...]

Beautiful Chanukah in Jerusalem

כ״ד בכסלו ה׳תשס״ה (Tuesday 7 December 2004)

Chanukah crept up on me this year in a serious way; I didn’t even realize this afternoon that it was starting tonight… So Hadar and I were having a very late brunch in a restaurant around the corner this evening when a Chabad guy appeared with a chanukiah and candles. He inquired from the proprietors [...]

Archeology rocks!

כ״ב בכסלו ה׳תשס״ה (Sunday 5 December 2004)

In high school I was a member of the Archeology Club. Run by a popular history teacher in cooperation with a parks department archeologist, we’d excavate a site one Sunday each month, and Thursdays after school we’d wash artifacts. It wasn’t glamorous, but I loved it, and I only stopped going when I had to [...]

focus group, Hadar, azkara, shuk

כ׳ בכסלו ה׳תשס״ה (Friday 3 December 2004)

In one of my old jobs, I worked in a market research firm providing support for focus groups – setting them up, interviewing respondents, recording them on audio tapes and video tapes, etc etc. Yesterday I got to participate in one, for a company designing a long-term Israel program for 18-30 year olds. It bore [...]

first bus pass

י״ח בכסלו ה׳תשס״ה (Wednesday 1 December 2004)

I am slightly more Yerushalmi today than I was yesterday … because I just bought my very first hofshi-hodshi, monthly pass for city buses. Previously I traveled using cartisiyot. A normal ride is NIS 5.5; cartisiyot are 10 rides for NIS 44 (ie, every fifth ride is free); a hofshi-hodshi is NIS 216 for the [...]

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